Ch2. Have Plans, Will Travel

"Think this through! It's a shit show out there! You might not even survive!" Scarlett tried to talk sense into the shorter girl who was shoving things in a hiking backpack.

Without looking up, Rose Scoffed "Yeah, well it seems like the perfect time too escape if you ask me." Rose finished putting her things in the backpack and lift it up.

"Listen, you can stay here as long as you want, there's enough food to last a few weeks if you ration it properly and enough water to last a few days, I recommend filling any empty receptacles with tap water while you can…" Rose moved to the window to check if the coast was clear.

Seeing that the freaks had moved on or at least out of her way, she peeked over towards Mr.Bucks garage seeing it open and his old motorcycle sitting pretty.

Thank god the old man was home or else she wouldn't be able to move freely through the streets, especially if they were as congested as Scarlett said they were.

However she was startled when she felt said woman grab her arm "I'm going with you, rather die out there then starve in here." Scarlett had a determined look on her face.

If Rose succeeded in escaping she'd have a better chance then her, so why not gamble, not like she had anything left worth loosing other then her own life, and that should definitely end if she stayed behind…. No way the government would get this mess cleaned up before she went from an Is, to a Was.

Rose looked the girl up and down " Fine by me, keep close and keep quite! First things first is to get to my old house….there's something there I need to retrieve…" Scarlett noticed the uneasy look on the short girls face but brushed it off, not her business anyways.

Moving out of the room and down the stairs, both girls stopped at the front door and took a deep breath, with a slow yet determined hand Rose opened the door and peeked out.

Not seeing anything near once more, she breathed a sigh of relief as she took a step outside, the suns rays hitting her face and heating her skin and a sudden smell of smoke and blood took over her sense of smell..

Not letting it distract her too much, she motioned behind her for Scarlett to keep close as she slowly began to move down her front walkway towards the driveway.

Passing her car she felt a paying of anger, it had taken so much time to afford the thing and now she had to leave it behind, but she quickly passed it, she knew if it was as bad as Scarlett said then there was no point in it anymore.

Both girls finally made it to the street and looked both ways, seeing nothing out of the ordinary other then massive pillars of smoke in the distance both ways and the faint sounds of emergency sirens, ignoring all that they both quickly bound across the street, hopping over the Mr.Buck smear.

The smell of blood, guts and ghosts of dinners past that had bust out of the intestines strewn along the road made Roses stomach once again reel, however she had already let out everything, so she didn't stop and blow chunks again.

The smell faded by the foot as she made her way up into Mr.Bucks open attached garage.

Quickly checking the ignition of the motorcycle, Rose let out a sigh of relief, thankfully the keys were there and ready to go.

Scarlett quickly nudged her while looking around at the empty street "Let's go, this place is making me uneasy." No sooner did the last word leave her mouth when both girls heard a loud thump making both jump almost out of their own skin.

Turning to the sound and spiting a small child thumping on a glass door that lead into the home, Rose raised her hand to her mout to cover her gasp as Scarlett looked on in sadness.

"Mia…"

The small girl no older then six stood at the glass door, her left hand thumping the glass as her milky white eyes kept themselves locked onto the two intruders in the garage.

Her right hand and arm, all the way up to her shoulder had been stripped of all its flesh and muscle, leaving it nearly skeletal and she stood there shirtless with all the flesh from her chest torn off revealing her ribs, sturnum and abdominal wall.

Scarlett began to walk up to the door, intending to open it and put the poor child out of its misery when she suddenly came too a halt.

A beautiful twentish year old blonde woman's face, etched with terror laying on the floor while an older woman that looked maybe in her fifties was in the process of pulling out the woman's intestines and shoving them into her own mouth.

Backing up and turning around, she caught Rose wiping a tear from her cheek "fucking monsters…" she began to attach the backpack to the side of the motorcycle as Scarlett kept an eye on the small girl pounding slowly on the door.

"Who are they?" Scarlett noticed that the old woman began to chew on the beautiful woman's face and had too look away in disgust as she mercilessly tore out a chunk of skin while her finger popped one of the woman's glazed over green eyes…. Another nightmare to scar her for life.

Not bearing to look any longer, Scarlett turned to Rose once more to see her quickly checking the amount of gas in the tank "You almost done?" Rose looked up at the nervous girl and rolled her eyes.

"Just keep an eye out for any danger, I need to make sure this bike can get us there, we're almost ready." Scarlett let out a sigh as she turned and shot a glance out of the garage, still seeing nothing.

*Thump——CRACK*

Hearing the cracking sound, both girls heads shot in the direction of the glass door that lead from the garage to the house, both turning pale and Rose deciding that the bike was definitely ready "hop on, quickly!".

The door could handle the small girl's constant hammering, but with the two new additions of an older woman covered in blood and a young ripped apart blonde woman joining her, the door was about to give.

Rose hopped on the bike and turned the key, causing the bike to sputter, "SHIT!" Scarlett hopped on behind her while nudging her, "HURRY UP!".

"I'm trying!" Turning the key again the motorcycle roared to life causing a rumble to travel up both girls ribcages, "YES! HOLD ON TIGHT!"

Not needing to be told twice, Scarlett grabbed onto Roses waist for dear life as the glass door finally shattered causing the little girl to fall onto the sharp debris and the old lady also soon tripped, falling onto the small girl.

The blonde woman however only stumbled causing what was left of her insides to spill out onto the cement garage floor, locking her dead gaze onto the two girls as Rose put up the kick stand and the bike began to move forward with a loud rumble.

Scarlett could swear she felt the fingertips of the freak tap on her back as the motorcycle finally exited the garage, telling how close she came to being a five star dinner.

The bike thankfully already past the driveway and entered the Main Street, passing the crashed truck, Scarlett turned her head away from the site of her fathers bleeding skull and still wet pavement.

As it left Roses home street, new sites of chaos revealed themselves to the girls, the rumble of the motorcycle now drowning out the alarms, screams and helicopters that flew high in the sky.

"HOW DID IT SPREAD SO FAST?!?" Rose shouted back over all the chaos hoping that Scarlett had heard her, "I don't know…."

The site of burning homes and the dead on their lawns, porches and in their cars became more common as the girls moved closer and closer towards the higher population areas.

Scarlett now wondered if this was worth it, she had lost so much just moving away from this madness….and now she was headed back towards it?

Even Rose was second guessing herself as she quickly swearved to avoid one of the freaks that was laying in the road twitching, the young teens back bent at a strange angle, tire marks clearly visible on the young teens white and bloody t-shirt as she thrashed about in an attempt to grasp the bike as it swerved by.

"Fuck me, I know her…" Roses eyes nearly bulged out at the girl who had always accompanied her little sister around the neighborhood selling Girl Scout cookies.

Scarlett tapped her on her shoulder and pointed towards a burning wreckage of two cars, making her pop the bike onto the sidewalk and around the carnage, body's clearly visibly strewn about like they had been thrown from the cars upon collision.

An up-turned SUV had two dangling people, presumably a couple, yet the woman had reached over and pulled the man's head closer as she viciously tore at his mangled face with her teeth, uncaring of her upside down predicament.

Both girls turned their sights from the wrecks as Rose picked up speed and the bike roared as it took off down the street before finally coming up to the ramp leading to the TCH.

The bike took the turn gracefully as the wind began to whip up the girls hair, Rose cursing herself for forgetting a helmet in the rush to get out of her neighbors garage.

Passing a sigh that gave Scarlett an ominous feeling as she looked up at the large white letters on a green background, a large skyline in the distance billowing up large black pillars of smoke as what seemed like hundreds of news and military helicopters could be seen flying to and from the dying city….

{London-Ontario, City center 15km ahead}

{Population 422, 324}

Rose looked on in horror as a large explosion rocked the city causing the Old Oaks Central building to lean and collapse….

"Perry…please be alive.." Rose mumbled to herself as the bike lurched forward and shot down the highway…